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Most lowbrow or highbrow characters

As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,125 characters on a 100 point scale from "lowbrow" to "highbrow". This page lists the 25 characters whose average ratings were the farthest to either side. Because the scale is bipolar, it is reversable. For example, a rating of 1/100 for "lowbrow" is the same as 100/100 for "highbrow". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.

Most lowbrow characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
191.8283Jayne Cobb (Firefly + Serenity)
290.1101Thomas 'Herc' Hauk (The Wire)
389.8378Barney Gumble (The Simpsons)
489.719Jonathan 'Gabe' Gabriel (Penny Arcade)
587.6355Nelson Muntz (The Simpsons)
687.6111Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire)
787.2362Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
887.1108Nick Sobotka (The Wire)
986.783Frank Sobotka (The Wire)
1085.935Reese Wilkerson (Malcolm in the Middle)
1184.623Neil Fak (The Bear)
1284.6518Kevin Malone (The Office)
1384.4394Moe Szyslak (The Simpsons)
1484.049Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
1584.036Ed (Shaun of the Dead)
1683.615Mat Cauthon (Wheel of Time)
1782.4180Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley)
1881.65Lenny (After Life)
1981.6348Jesse Pinkman (Breaking Bad)
2081.614Johnny 'Drama' Chase (Entourage)
2181.120Pamela Poovey (Archer)
2281.010Colby (Yellowstone)
2381.0459Gollum (Lord of the Rings)
2480.733Mac (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
2580.213Gino (Baby Reindeer)

Most highbrow characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
194.910Chrisjen Avasarala (The Expanse)
293.8279Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham (Downton Abbey)
391.7287Lady Mary Crawley (Downton Abbey)
491.2330Lady Catherine de Bourgh (Pride and Prejudice)
591.05Duke Orsino (Twelfth Night)
690.527Bree Van de Kamp (Desperate Housewives)
790.4319Simon Tam (Firefly + Serenity)
889.858Moira Rose (Schitt's Creek)
989.321Lady Jessica (Dune)
1089.180Lucille Bluth (Arrested Development)
1188.8292Robert Crawley, 7th Earl of Grantham (Downton Abbey)
1288.743King George III (Hamilton)
1388.1881Mycroft Holmes (Sherlock)
1487.6285Olenna Tyrell (Game of Thrones)
1587.312Rose Weissman (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
1687.311Barbara Howard (Abbott Elementary)
1787.2399Eleanor Sung-Young (Crazy Rich Asians)
1887.0336Inara Serra (Firefly + Serenity)
1986.869Miranda Priestly (The Devil Wears Prada)
2086.818Madeline Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher)
2186.6345Fleur Delacour (Harry Potter)
2286.6470Rupert Giles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
2386.6220Tywin Lannister (Game of Thrones)
2486.3237Robert Ford (Westworld)
2586.228Malory Archer (Archer)

Similar features

The survey has 525 different descriptive scales that the characters can be rated on. This list is the 10 other scales that that have the highest correlation with lowbrow<--->highbrow when aggregated at the character level.

  1. unpolished (not eloquent) (r=0.85)
  2. rustic (not cultured) (r=0.77)
  3. rugged (not refined) (r=0.75)
  4. folksy (not presidential) (r=0.74)
  5. good-enough (not perfectionist) (r=0.7)
  6. scruffy (not manicured) (r=0.7)
  7. small-vocabulary (not big-vocabulary) (r=0.7)
  8. drop out (not valedictorian) (r=0.69)
  9. 🧢 (not 🎩) (r=0.69)
  10. sloppy (not fussy) (r=0.68)

Notes

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